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A POLITICAL CONSPIRACY 

OK 

JEFF BAVIS, THE TRAITOR, 

\ \ 

\ AND THE 

COPPERHEAD DEMOCRACY. 

IN THE NOMINATION OF 

George B- M'Clellan for the Nation's Presedential Chair 

UNMASKfcJD ; 
R 

THE STATESMEN. SOLDIERS AND 



DESP^OTIS M. 

WHERE ALL ARE SLAVES, 

AND 

WHERE ALL WOULD RULE, AND NONE OBEY. 

In Several Sections, of interest to the American Nation, 

By Rev. ISAAC AlXERTON, 

Sometime State Chaplain of a Regiment during the American and British War ot 

1812. 



Their feet shall slide in due time,'^ 



A. A. BTNON & CO. BOOK AND JOB PEINTEKS, 63 VESEY STREET, NEW-YORK. 



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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864. by 

REV ISAAC ALLERTON, 

in the Clcrk'e Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southeru 

District of New York. 



THE STATESMEN. SOLDIERS AND CITIZENS' 

SECTION I. 
THE AGED CHAPLIN'S ADDRESS TO THE READER 

Loyal Americans ; 

We eome before you not as a politician, nor as a religious polemic- 
We come before you to beg a hearing on a subject, not only of the deep- 
est interest to us as a partnership in one Federal union of btatcs, but 
involving, as we verily believe, the existence of our liberties, and 
the perpetuity of our republic. ^ „ . , ;i + i o„i 

In the treasonable political party theory of "independent loca 
State rights," as these are characterized by the leaders of rebeUion at 
the South, and by a disorganizing party claimmg_ to be the orthodox 
democracy of the North, we have detected an mvadmg, audacious 
conspiracy, under the mask of " sacred State rights" against the lib- 
erties of our country : we have dragged it forward into the light ; we 
have stripped the visor off its face ; and have brought it up to your 
tribunal for public judgment in case. 

So far as our capacity of reasoning can extend, we pronounce it a 
treasonable party political invention : a policy mostly of loreigii ori- 
e-in • foreign in its support, and in its allegiance, and is having abane- 
ful influence to sunder all that union nationality contemplated m the 
Constitution left to posterity by our fathers, to annul civii^ lav, to va- 
cate the Presidential chair, to annihilate Congress, to dissolve our Cab- 
inet to palsy our military arm ! and to gratify its lust of treasonable 
ambitivm, it has thrown this glorious republic into a war ot human 
slaughter. It has waged this war for the extermination of this repub- 
lican government and the sacred liberties of man. It has compelled 
its slaves at the South to grasp the hammer of treason and rivet 
stronger their chains, while its Northern army, foreign and domestic 
are Iield in veneration for their loyalty to the great bloody counterleit 
"Stat.-> rio-hts^' theory. Indeed this treasonable dogma aims at uni- 
versal power over the property, the bodies and souls of all men withm 
the reach of its disloyal, arbitrary, avaricious arm, and its historj pi 
fire and blood, and reckless oppression, to annihilate by war, by this 



war of barbarism, the last vestige of civil liberty, and to degrade the 
North Ainerican character in view of the nations, can be nmie other 
than anarcljy, emboldened and led onward by such despotic champi- 
ons as Jefferson Duvis, James Buchanan, Vallandigham, Horatio, and 
also one Mr. Fernando A. Woodemnan, notorious for liis loyally U, tiie 
chief bloody Despot of a confederacy of traitors. 

^^'e thi-refore say, that so far as these sons of Belial sliall reach the 
power which they lust after in this land, they will enact upon freemen 
and Iree institutions more bloody scenes than tlieNew York July anti- 
enrollment riots, or the indiscriminate massacre of oui surrendered 
])risoners of war. 

It is in view of these impending disorders, which are over at- 
tendant on anarchy and despotic rule, that makes us feel desir- 
ous to impress on the mind ot the loyal reader that, of all human 
institutions. States are of the slowest growth, and re(|uire the deepest 
root. To be permanent they must be founded in the habits and cus- 
toms of the people. Like a statue they cannot be brought into exist- 
ence by edict or decree nor by anarchy Far away from these arbi- 
trary elements, their laws must be founded in the institutions of social 
life, and penetrate the business and pure conscientious bosoms of 
men. 

As a nation we are entering on a new state of free existence, in the 
very land once the home of our fathers, in the same land now crim- 
soned by means of anarchy, and from whence thousands of Union mar- 
tyrs' soldier spirits arc fled npward during this unholy secession war I 
We say to onr countrymen, yes, in the same land, where the mortal of 
the conscientiously brave are fallen But then, we should regard the 
blood of the Union soldier martyr a precious seed; because his dust, 
even m death's dormitory, has made Federal union soil sacred for all 
future time. Indeed, the events of the hour are verily now, sugges- 
tive that, since the inauguration of the American Nation's Executive 
Chief, in one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the W(.rk of a cen- 
tury has already been achieved. "We have w"'atchcd with no ordinary 
interest, the pregnant events of this national struggle, from th« fall of 
Sumpter by armed rebellion, to the disgraceful scenes of anarchy in 
the New York July anti-enrollment riots, and day by day and lnuirby 
hour, we have beheld a degraded counterfeit " State rights " copper- 
head army at the North, and their vidsfers, a uniform, bloodv, confed- 
eracy at the South, receding, until more than half the t(>rritory cov- 
ered by the rebel flag at the beginning of the war, has fallen into pos 
sessKjn of the Government, and is covered by the star.'< and stripe.^, the" 
emblem of liberty now and forever We have beheld armed anarchy 
spreading her revolutionary "State right" c(mnterfeit bloody ft.lds in 
* J^''"'tl»'iT' Christian city, and hands stained in human gore tearing 
the l^in'on banner in a thousand pieces. "\Ve have beJield our quiet 
citizens fleeing and being pursued before a political party that were 
determined to rule and never to obey, burning, robbing, and shedding 
liuman blood. And again we have seen a great city become a quiet 
home by means of the power of the grape and canister, discharged by 
Potomac veferan soldiers, that were hurried in multitudes from the 
war batlh; ll<ld to put down a political party, and a jiarty, too, that 
were in an alliance of sympathy with the great Southern treason. 



We suggest to the reader that we have passed the years of three 
score and uineteen. During this Latter period we have beheld this 
Northern arm of the rebellion retreating and shifting from side to 
side • sometimes professing to be heart and soul Union men, then 
seeming to be delirious, rattling in the throat and wishing they had 
never been born : then revived and being comforted at any defeat of 
our naval and military arm. And again we have seen a statesman, a 
most eloquent stickler for the State right counterfeit currency become 
alarmed in view of a fatal epidemic, in the entire army of Northern an- 
archy, we have beheld that reckless man acting as a physician, feeling 
the pulse, and speaking kind words of "friendship" to his entire army 
of desperadoes, assuring every man a remedy by means of his Assist- 
ant General, when these innocent offending creatures should inimedi- 
ately become convalescent. , r. , x- .1 r 

It is therefore in view, of the drying up ot the Euphrates ot the ioe 
to freedom at the South, and withering the sympathizing arm of anai^ 
chy at the North, of States once degraded being regenerated, and 
apportioning freedom to every man, we say^ how solemnly important 
must be the re-election of the sound statesman now at our Republican 
National helm. But, this requires capacity, devotion, and purpose. 
It must be done by the people, and not under the dictation of men in 
sympathy with the great Southern treason. It must be done by in- 
voking the blessing of Cxod Almighty, upon the approaching National 
Vay, when freemen shall prove to traitors that they love their country 
,s a seat of laws, a mild, wise and happy government, in the very 
land where repose the mortal of our forefathers. Here our tender in- 
fancy was reared with care. Here, our innocent children sported. 
Here our careless youth grew up amid companions and friends. Here 
our dearest connections were formed, and here our fathers of the ever 
memorable, glorious Revolution toiled, and groaned, and bled,^ and 
died, leaving as their legacies for us their children, this entire Union 
of States, as one sovereign nationality, never to be sundered by 

It is, however, none other but the God of armies who demands pen- 
itence 'for national wickedness. But the repentance of a nation does 
not consist in a bare attention to present disorders. It requires us to 
go back to the times of our revolutionary ancestors, and to examine 
whether we be now suffering by means of their imperfections. We 
may flatter ourselves that we are not responsible for any of the errors 
of our forefathers, but provided we are becoming rich by cherishing 
their defects, or holding as sacred what they have framed wiiich sanc- 
tions oT^-oTPssion, we must be a'^coimtable fo^ any oud every vice they 
have entailed; although the Governor of New York, the doctor of 
Jefferson Davis, may demand the bowing of every knee to their divid- 
ing theory of " constitutional rights." 

It is on this account the justice of God threatens to involve us with 
national punishment. Yes, verily, all the blood shed in this treason- 
able rebellion shall be required at the hands of its conspirators, and 
of those in sympathy with anarchy, to aid the great Southern trea- 
sonable insurrection. 

This should be a dreadful thought, for the Governor of a loyal 
State. A dreadful thought, to freemen who are to legislate as the 



reprcsontatives of a groat republic. A di-cadful thong-ht for our Un- 
ion statesuK'n, generals, soldiers, and citizens. A dreadful tliouglit 
for tlie cru'd and the e.varicious who have coninieuced this bloody 
robelboii. Dreadful thoMirht, thao they must iiiiierit all the punish- 
ment lir t!io defects ui the fat'nera. rueadud ihought, wiien God 
shall nii.K in one cup of woo, the sins of the children w ith those of 
their preilecessors, and cliain to tliis and future g'eneratif)ns the enor- 
mities of the present and the past 1 Dreadful thought, that this He- 
public is now shaking from center to circumference, and the petitions 
of many a Most'S are refused by those; tenderdieartccl disei])les of the 
meek aiid lowly, who are ])lcased wilii coerced ial)or from tlie defence- 
less poor, and practice city mob riots to aid the gnMt .Southern rebel- 
lion. Dreadful thought, that we must rear armies and navies to d(>- 
fend life, property, the honor of the nation, and moreover that the 
price of freedom must once more be the blood of our countrymen. 
Dreadfid thought, that the Southern Confederacy have drawn a bloody, 
avaricious sword, which refuses to return to its scabbard, and seems 
desirous that ours, the land of liberty, should be one vast sepulchre. 

\Ve have, in times tliat are passed, listened with a sort of cool in- 
difference to tlio calamities of Europe, not so much as drcaniing such 
horrors might be our own. In order to remove them, now they tire 
come, let us humble ourselves while looking up to the Supreme Ma- 
jesty who has said "oi what i aslant I shall fpciJc cnnccrni.i'O a nation, 
to ]>iill dcuv'i and destroy >t, if that nation turn from their evil I ici 1 1 repent 
of ihe evil J thouf/ht to do unto them." Wc announce to the reader that 
this is the method which God now proposes as a condition of Ins favor, 
of the peace of the nation, the perpetuity of our republic, and of the 
retention of the entire old Federal Union homestead unimpaired. This 
is the method of Divine Avisdom, proposed to all conflicting parties in 
this war of bretliren, and which is a method of peace. ^Vclnust \yivt 
away from the nation '• the evil " which has been the cause of this 
rebellion, whatever that evil may be. And provided it be cruelty, 
enthusiasm, or coveteousncss, it must be annihilated : then, and not 
till then, shall we, as a nation, have the protection of the AlmiglUy. 

We therefore suggest to Preidnit JAacoln., to Governor Symour, to 
Stdiesm n, to soldie7's, to cdize'S. and also to Southern /'ai/'"'.s pi"ovided 
slavery be this " evil," put it immediately awiiy. Northern people, 
consider. Search for the national evil, and provided you fnid t!iat, the 
Great Jehovah sanctions the rebellion of the South, and the l)loody 
war which Jeff Davis has commenced against the United States Gov- 
ernment, because you have no black men in bondage, then let (iov- 
erufjr Seymour recommend in a extra message, tlic importance ol vv- 
viviiig an immediate maritime slave trade, and also suggest that no 
one nnin in the State of New York, or in any State, can be reco.gnized 
as a sound member of the compromising democracy, who shall here- 
after grieve the Southern brotherhood by refusing to purchase every 
man an African, aud thus restore tlie National Union by putting away 
the evil. 



7 

SECTION II. 



An Elucidation of Society—the Jlotives Ihat induce mcu to Croate Gcvera'iaen''. — a 

Deliuiliuu oi ;bo three foims of Natioxiul JSoveruignty, nml the inconvoniences 
of each. 

Loyal Americans : 

It is our purpose, in this department, to define the orig'in of society, 
and to portray the motives which induce men to create govermnent. 

Each of mankind has wants to be supplied, as dependent creatures 
one upon the other. He needs the meaus of knowledge, of laws to 
IDrotect him, of property for his support, of medicines to relieve pain, 
of aliments to nourish his frail tabernacle, and of clothiug to shelter 
him against the severity of the changing seasons. It is, hence, simi- 
lar wants produce the same design. Therefore, different men unite, 
that the industry of all may suppl}' what may be needful to each. 
That they may enjoy the blessing they desire, some lixed articles of 
government must be obeyed. They feci their natural equality. They 
promise mutually to succour and relieve each other ; to be ever sin- 
cere, and to utter none other but truth ; to regard the happiness of all 
above the interest of one, aud that in cases of private and public in- 
terest, that of the iiuNic shall predominate. 

This is a societ}^ furmed on tiie principles of rectitude, which teaches 
men their natural equality ; that they arc an origin from the same 
dust, have the same Creator, and are doomed to the same last end. 
This is a loyal national rectitude, which teaches all men to be just. 
That we should render tribute to whom tribute is due ; custom to 
whom custom, and honor to whom honor is due. That " whatever we 
would have others do to us, we should do even so to them." This 
is a rectitude requiring us to be animated with charity to each other ; 
to regard good men as heirs of the same terrestrial and immortal 
glory. It requires us not to be compelled, but rather cheerfully to 
3'ield our private interest for the public good ; to legislate, and hold 
our war counsels, in the fear of God ; to contend earnestly for the 
freedom of cvevy being who is an accountable agent at the great 
tribunal of inflexible justice. 

But then it is inconvenient for the members of a society in a large 
territory to meet for legislative purposes, nor can ihej, in this man- 
ner, conveniently give their suffrages. Public bodies regard it as 
wise and convenient to elect some of their number, to act as legisla- 
tors, and to clothe these with authority in all matters appertaining to 
Government. 

The forms of national government ainmig men severally adopted, 
are, Moitarchy, A R-pubiic i^that is a Uepreseutative Administration,) 
and Democraci/, which Js a popular Ilcvoiutionary Sovereignty. 

There could bo no objection whatev.-r to either of tiiese forms of na- 
tional rule, provided moral perfection wore universal. But as history 
and also experience affii-m the contrary, wo proceed to portray the 
inconveniences attendant on each of these several fornis of national 
Government rule ; and 

First. — It is fatal to a nation's felicity, when a monarch thinks him- 
self clothed with power for his own elevation, and not for the glory of 



liis king-dom. When ho adopts arbitrary measures to dispose of the 
lives and jjioperty of his subjects. When he satiates his thirst for 
vrn-;vance and ^flury by a waste of liis people in foreign battle fields. 
When lii- butchers his subjects by heedin<r the advice of a rash coun- 
sellor, and has no humane eniotinns for the distresses of the widow 
and the orphan. Yea, when lie wislies all the nei-^-hborin,<;- nations 
were one h.-ad, that he niig-ht sunder all Governments except his own, 
with one fatal blow. 

A second form of (Government, denominated a Republic, becomes 
hurtful when any one of the senntors, representatives, or magistrates, 
f 'rgettinir that he is an individual member, strives to be at the head 
of every department of State. When he intrudes into office, by what- 
ever is too mean to be mentioned before a virtuous peo])le. When he 
uses his jiower, not from a principle of public regard, but rather 
for the advancement of his inditical party, or fainily. \\'heu he 
is so meanly avarici(Mis for gold that he will sell his vot(\ When he 
is a syiniiathizer with a cruel intestine rebellious faction, forming strat- 
agems tor the overthrow of the Republic ; and also when he ever 
makes himself judge in his own cause. 

Moreover, a popular Government, denominated a Democran/, be- 
comes impaired and hurtful, when intrigue and cabal give eflect to 
evil counsels ; and when a powerful faction o]:)press the virtuous few. 
When laws are made and repealed, fnuu principles of levity, other- 
wise for tlie opprossicm of tlie human kind. When popular liberty de- 
generates into anarchy and licentiousness. like that of tlie French na- 
tion, Snith America, Mexico, and the bloody anti-Enrollment Riots, to 
favor the great Southern Treason, in the city of New York— ever 
memorable as the anti-war peace party anti-enrollment riots. When a 
popular revolutionary sovereign people deny freedom and right to 
ev(My sane being of human origin — we say, when these crimes exist, 
and are also deemed secured by constitutional law, the enormities of 
the many become an evil, equally appalling as the tyrainiy of one. 

" The Democratic queftion is, however, in r;ot. no question fur the American 
State.sraan.and tlie term D tnociat a« fipp'.i.-d here to a political pariv, lias, it the 
the party i> not arevoliltioiiary party, no incaninL'. t'he Democratic '(piesiion is 
properly rai^fil. and is impnrta'it only whore there is no j,'Overnment. no civil .society 
and the question is that of f 'undine' ci^'il -society, and orfranizin<f irovernment: or 
where there is a qne.nion as to the rio;ht of revoliiiion. tu- ot'overthruNv iug t.y violence 
an existing; fjovernment, nnd inlrodncinjr a new one. In neither sense is it a le-nii- 
inate r|iiPsl;on in the United States, for we have a government, and the people irave 
a consiitiitii) ,al way of uniending our institntions. and Iherelwre can introduce such 
aineliorat'ons r.s tliey judiro desirable without any re.'orl to revolutioi'." 

^ L/'fHoc (tic Purii/—i.i"\i acts out its rea iii.u,;i.i- — i. .. ,;iii-,v o' levoiuflt::! and 
destruction, and 1 ask boldly, if every attempt of the inodera Democratic parly to 
carry out any real idea o( democracy, has not tieen an act of revolution ? More than 
thirty years ago, the State of Ge.iifiia resi-led the decisioh oflhe Supreme Court in 
the Cherok-e rase, and tin- Democrat c Administration submitted to a fundamental 

volution, tti tlie diclaliim of (ifor'/i;'. .\ short lime after, South Ci<rol;na sent forth 
lier deccre-oluullificatio'i, and ihe Democritic .Vdministiatioii submitted ioa compro- 
miee, which, in fat, placed the (iovernm.;nl at the feet uf South Can.liua, ami laid 
the f.iuiulalion of the present war. A few years aft -r Texas was annexed, without 
the sllKhtvHi coii.-titutional authority, or ihe'idea of Democratic sovercifjiity ; and 
now we have, in this bloodv aid rerohitionary war. the ri^lit win,' -A' tht D muer.ilic 
party Ojfhtintr. witti great armi.'s, t 'C (lovcrniiient of ihoir country ; and the lolt win?, 
under i'our Seymours, Wood-, and Valla^jdich im-, sayin- aa nnuh as thf>y can to 



help thorn. Wood, who is the true representative of Democracy, and ought to be ita 
candidate for the Presidency, has his speeches in Coni;;res8 quoted in the lebel Con- 
gress as orthodox doctrine. Now, these are the legitimate consequences of a princi- 
ple which is in its very nature, revolutionary. Nor has Governor Seymour failed to 
announce, in the case of Vallandigham'g arrest by the Government, that '' the time 
for rfvolution has already arrived." 

A State is the people united into one body or community for the purpose of Gov- 
ernment. Sovereignty is an attribute of Government. These forms become living 
bodies, by virtue of the sovereignty imparted to them by the people. The United 
States Government is the supreme State to which all the people owe primary al- 
legiance. When a State of the Union becomes subversive of the ends for whi^ii it was 
created, or sei'ks, by virtue of the sovereignty with which it has been invested, to 
bnng the people in conflict with the supreme sovereignty to which they owe primary 
allegiance, or when such state government becomes abrogated or destroyed by any 
means, the sovereignty with wh'ch it was invested returns to the people, to be ex- 
ercised by them de nova, and such State ceases to exist as a State of the Union. 
This contest is war, and all the rules of war state, among the rights of the conqueror 
is the right to dictate to the conquered the form of Government they shall adopt. 
The States, in their Corporate capacity, may be treated as fo'^eign enemies, but the 
people, in respect to their allegiance to the national Government, must be considered 
and treated as domestic enemies. 

It. could be sl;own, that by no mrn have the " rights of the States," even on their 
own shallow theory, been more seriously assailed than by those who have made ihe 
loude:^t profession of being their special defenders. If we are ?^ partnership merely, 
there could not be a more direct wrong to the non-consenting members, than the 
forcing upon tnem a new partner, wholly foreign to the original articles. Such wag 
the gross infringement of State rights in the annexation of Texas, and the still great- 
er outrage proposed in the purchase of Cuba. Again, if each State is a sovereign, 
what higher rigbt could it possess than that of making citizens? But how contemptu- 
ously was this treated in the partisan Dred Scott decision? State made citizenship 
was citizenship nowhere, whilst, to favor a sectional interest, that much lower thing, 
State-made property, though of a kind opposed to the ideas of the whole civilized 
world, was declared to be property everywhere. And so, too of State representation, 
in the United Mates Senate, of all others, that feature in our Constitution which seems 
purely Federal — how has it been assailed ol late, because it seemed to favor New 
England ? We have seen this in the same newspaper column that was teeming with 
its intemperate advocacj' of State rights. Such shocking inconsistency shows that 
the doctrine, as commonly held, never had any ground ot principle, that it was never 
anything else than the handy weapon of a miserable party expediency. 

But let us vi'w the question in its higher and broader aspects. Tht re are " Rights 
of the States," doubtless, as there are also rights of cities and towns. Among them is 
one that stands out pre-eminently — higher than all others, deeper than all others. 
It is the right of these States in one another. It is the right of each State in the 
whole, and in eveiy other State. Ttiis is, indeed, a precious *• State right," far more 
valuable, far more glorious than any claim of petty indepindeiice. 

Now, the sectional worlds are the " chivalry of the souih^" the 'bold sons of the 
^Test," as sometimes arrayed against the canting' puritanism of th; East," Let that 
other day come, and soon may we expect the rights of the " Jersey Oystermen,' or the 
'■Chesapeake clam-gatherers," or -'the free mineisof Mauch Chunk," or the in- 
domitable tar-burners of ^orth Carolina," or last, ibiugh not least, ' the unterrified 
L'emocracy of the Five Points," In proportion as all above grows loose, asincv- 
ital-.y lau.ji, be tLi.' cabi, wh^u the ijendiiijj kej of the arch is gone) &u surel^' would 
all below give way, and spread apart, sinking ever lower and lower, to the level of 
small r and meaner interests. The great national band is all that saves us from such 
a state of things ; but this band has much to resist, and should, therefore, be of 
c»rrespoading strength. The worst of all traitors, the greatest enemies of the 
true '• Stat; rights," have been those politicians who. for the past fifty years, have 
done all th'^y could to weaken it, and now unbiushiugly claim that they are the 
only men that can restore the national health. 

V^'"e now make an appeal to every sane vnter at the approaching 
Presidential Election, and ask, if this proposition of the C(rpperhead 
DoniocrRcy, by means of George H. McClellan, be not the very sublime 
of impadeuce ? 



10 

All true, loyal, Democratic men, however, who are aliv*; t . thfir 
nation's w(-lfare, must be held in cverlastinj? remembrance-. Their 
giuvfs rlihU i.<a be iri.'.iktil vvitli :bc diegracef' ] epithet or ihecniel 
aTur;c;..v..-i t.aitor. Their afl.i.-Yon'CPt;^ ruii.^t bj a?) nrnnmci-( on the 
page of history ; and tlieir children, verilr. be respected as a posterity 
of the true and the hr.vo. No ton^r„f. of blander can bliirlt theii is- 
6UP, as bein^r descendants from Ireaciicrons 8i es ; «nd their loyalty as a 
mem. . rial, siiall l)e honored in all fmiirn ti.i,e. Such must r- main the 
cluiraeter, and such tlie glory, not of the Wood. Buchanan, and the Se^- 
mour, but r.ther of the lo\al and over respected Democrat. 

But the time must come it must eunie— when hnmanitv shall receive 
her lauiels at the hands of virtue, though slavery perish 'to propare its 
wav. There must b,^ political as rcMlly as military deaths ; and (ieerge 
B McClellun, aa well as llora:io Seymour, mu.s't know it aud feel Tt. 
Ihere must b-. resiirrectious ! Our (tovernment must he sustained ! 
Our armies victoriuns, and onr union rvstorrd ! 

We tl-.erefore say, loyal men of America, the bone and sinrw of this 
once glorious Kepublie, under God Abnighty, it is in ^our power 
before the clo.se of November 18(i4, tooau^e thiJ enemy's arm to be clean 
dried up, and his right (-ye to l)e utterly darkened. 



SECTION III. 

A Sketch of .Ifeneral Georire B. McClcllaa-s Private Ili.story, since Li.s rdi-f from 
Commaudiug the Potomac Army. 

Loyal Americans : 

PJfcas« read somewiiat of a war General's priy,.te hist-rv • that after 
General IcClellan was removed from farther'command of the anny I e 
^::7tv:rr'I ^'W ^'^ ^^ ^--^--l ^eace Dem.,cracv. w ho fn 
thei n a e -T 't'! ''"' '"r ' "'''^ ^^ "-^'^^'^'^^^ '>^' ^''^'t party, that 
ever men r'H'l "r ; ^'T' '^"" "'^'^ "^^'^-^ ^''^^'•^' '^' th. /hneof the 

•e mion .obT"'T'/'';^r'"^ '"''^ noaumuion- bv the Chiea g.. Con 
eniion, to be Fresnient of the nation. I.y a party, aud a party too that 

Zur:lr -^Vr^' P^'^^-'-Uni<;n miliary atm. Jm-ing this 
war to suppros.H the rebellion; and, finally. George B MeChdlan's ac- 
-pt.nj. a nomination for the Pres.idntial Chai, , by this ve yolu 

S^^n^to n ""^'^'-'V;"^ '" '- Lotb-r o, Ajeeptance.Vlo,ir;l:i 
Mcjd.ll.n Hatform, suggesting a Union war policy, sometlrn.^ he i„ 



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been ci mplaceiit to liis Boltli rs ; but then, he did the s.ine to the r<'.l)els 
and he is also now doing tilings marvelously kind for the Copperheads ; 
and, moreover, Cor a confed'-racv of Southern Irtiitors. Nor con wo be- 
li<^V'' it fiOr^siliJo titat an. will ^iTird hin" l.iieir snttra;.);e nt tho l a h>t box 
(t'xoept ills leiuaiiiuig admiit'i^) ij'ut who have loBi,' labored under 
the uiisfoi tune of being in :>ympatliy witii the great Southern tieasoii. 



SECTION IV. 

Souiid reasons why Abraham Lincoln should ')'> Re-lected President of the United 
State.', iu November 18 J4, and Georj^^- B. McClel.aa rejected. 

LovAL Americans : 

We sugg-st n tiling new .vlii ti Wf; aniuiuuce t'lat, in the approaching 
N )v<'nibfr, 1864, an El- ction of some one of our citizfc.ns is to take place 
thrDUghout the entire not-seceded American nation. The next man to 
fill the Piesedential chair will be George B. McClellan, or Abraham Lin- 
coln. The private opinions of the candidates are of nninor moment. 
The principles of the respective pHrtiv\<? are of the greatest importance to 
this bleeding community. Should General McClellan be the successful 
aspirer for power, bis peace party will manage him as they did on the 
Potomac — as the do now — and as the rebels did ex-President, Buchanan. 
We now affirm that Jeff Davis and Abraham Lincoln both speak the 
same sentiment, that slavery is not the point at issue in this bloody con- 
test. Davis declares that he -s protracting this war against our Gov 
ernment and Constitution for a recognition of his Confederacy as an in- 
dependent nation, otherwise that lie will fight until every male citizen of 
the South is annihila:,. d. Abraham Lincoln, on the other side, as the 
elected chief of this Republic, is in command of a powerful army, and 
navy that are fighting to r.;'.ain a Union and tenitovy bequeathed to all 
future posterity by the fathers of 1776; otherwise purchased by the 
treasure of the republic, to be, and to rem lin, tlie property of a majority 
of the people — which, in our republic comprise this American nation. 
Davis, as a bloody traitor, is c iispiring and warring to destroy our Con- 
stitution. Lincoln, as a patriot and tather to [ osterity, is adopting all 
loyal means warranted by our Constitution, to save that Constitution un- 
impaired. ; to Hdove out of the way what has been the cause of the 
rebellion, and we say, tliat he admits of no compromise whatever with 
treason. Davis fights desperately, that he may be an example (or a con- 
tinual secession of the States, until our nation's Constitution has no 
subjects to obey it. On the other hand, Lincoln holds up the Constitu- 
tion, as the precious price of noble, loyal, patriotic blood, shed freely by 
their fathers, to procure an American legacy in one national stock, never 
to be sundered ; as iht- b,i>i.s ef order, of obedience, of liberty, and the 
nation's elevati(;ii. 

Our latheis when they ir.iide the Constitution, tl ought they coiihl trust it to the 
intijllisiGnce. the virtue, the patriotism of 'he Ami'rican peopio, to appoint their own 
Prtsiuiin from time to tinif. Wei!, iu ^ 810, iu the due course of our politic il his- 
tory, the American people exercised the riuht of performing that high duty com- 
mitted to them by the Coustitution. They elected Abraham Lincoln to be President 



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of tlie United State?. Thf^y did it fnirly. They did it after a full and complete 
cauvHs.'j of all the issue involves. All H)e\>tatcs of the Uiiion, and all ihe people of 
all the States, as fir as we can jiid^e. took part in that content, and voted lor the 
ni-n niioin they resp-clivfly pref ried. Wliat \va< the result".' By a coiistit\itional 
majority — ISO electors out o' 252— Abraham l.incoln was ch<jseii President. For the 
drst time in the history of tlii- counlry---aiid I tru,«t it will be the last --a iiortimi of 
th')>e who supported the defeated candidate, hreckinridire, raised the st ndard ot 
levoW, And for four years they have Iteen trying to ti^iht it out on that line. If 
thei rcandidate had l)een ehcti'd we would have heeu n qiircd to actpiiesce, hut for 
four years they hav(« been tryinjr to prevent Lincoln from bein<; President of the 
United States, and they have prevented him from brint? President of the wh<'le United 
S'tat. s up to t'.ie present time. It is an attempt to overthrow the Constitution and 
Go ernment. Therefore the issue Is wheih'T a majority of Ihe .\merican people can 
or Fhall til ct thi-ir Pn-^-ident or wheiher they .-h'lll submit to a minoiiij-. The deci- 
Mon of that question dipcnds upon the remit of the present cntite-t. The conven- 
ti II at Baltimore decided to nominate a President afrain. and resolved tiia it they 
had to h^ht for his election they w.inldhfrht for if. 'I hey resol eil that this rebellion 
should be crushed by foice so lon<r s it should continue and that the .'■upremacy of 
the Constitution should be maintaiiieil. They nominated precisely the man that the 
minority has been endenvorinpr to ))revent being I'resiihiit after being duly elected. 
Th(' other portion of the people who met at Chicago, after full deiiberatifn, took 
their stand, I'ut how did they meet the issue? They sf<id ro'hing about the right 
of the n,ajority to have their President, and of the minority to submit— nothing 
airainst the rebellion. Tl at. certainly, was significant. It was no accident, the 
omission of so rital a point. This silence betniyed their sympathies with the re- 
tiellioii. .Many of them did not hesitate to manif(st their Ixdief that the >el)els were 
in the light, but they did not dare to afflrm it in so many \xords, because they want- 
ed vote.s for the candidate of their ])arty. They resolved that the wai o'ight to he 
stoppi d. Why? Becau.se of the failure to put down the rebellion in four years. If 
we had failed so far, so much the more reason (or renewed efforts. While that con- 
vention was sittiuj;, Atlanta was being taken. Already we have conquered and 
secured three-quarters ol the lebid territory. Our Cenerals tell us that their last 
man is conscripted, and they are muking their last struggle. T he real (eeliiig of the 
men at Chicago is conveyed in the declaration ot Gov. Seymour in a public speech, 
that" succes.'^ful coercion would be as rev(.lntionary as successful secession."' In other 
words, that to support the Government of the Uniti d Slates by force of arm.s would 
l-e just as revolutionary as to ovei 'hrow it by lorce of arms, liuchanan also declar- 
ed that there was no right ol coerciop, and acted upon it. Such was the attitude of 
the party that with such an outrage upon all decency of lanjrnage, calls itself Utmo- 
cratic : and ii has not changed ground. Nowhere h:'s it admitted tht- right of coer- 
cion. They tike ground against ii because there are Stat s in the South engaged in 
this rebellion, liut does not the onsiitution declare thut.it and the la w m uh' in 
puisiiance ol its provisions shall be the sn| reme law of llit; land, anytliing in the 
CousMtution and laws of any Stale to the contrary notwiiLstanding ? Ihe men at 
Chicago speak of State rig'jts, \\tiieh in ail very well when properly deliu' d. But 
do we not all know that the rel.ellic.n is justifi.'d l.y jdeading State rlghi>? Such is 
the seiise impli. d at Chicago, if th, y meant anytliii'ig at all. They seek to place ihe 
sovereignty ot the Spates over that of the UiMoii, but it is of course such a Union aS 
shall recognize tin,' asserted right of secession, and iho rightluloes.- ot reb-llioi 
Probably Jcfi. Davis himself, upon mature reflection, would c«ju> nt to a U- ion mul-r 
th" Mo'^fpiiniery < V[ stifntjor, if Ii. Northern allies will H'.:ree to turn N w-,'.M;(larid 
out. Some of the Southern brethr n have intimated ih it they might possib.y meet 
the Northern mudsills, hold their imses and listen to si me such propo>iti<.n. I do 
not think the Chicago platform is eajiable of ^o many intei preiatious iis have gener- 
ally been attributed to it. It is ;is ojien a declaration as they dared to make of 
sympathy with the rebellion. We .■.!! know th:it a cessation of hostilities means the 
withdrawal of our aimies and the nisingof the blocKade. This would j-ivetlum 
an opportunity to renew the war. Us effect would be to give the rebels all they 
nerd. Our w.ldierri, be ing euliste.l for the war. would b» d.scharged. Theirs 
would not; they are held with n:i i ion ham'. Alter an armistice we would be iu 
just the condition of unprepMrediK »•< that Huchanau held us 

Wlien we cmmPtircd this uar of defetitliug a Uninn of all llie Slitcs, 
we had iu>L niuiij Voiiig Nijior ,n (iemruU. Jt is liue, George 13. Mc- 



13 

CleliHn, somehow, saluted our Presideut with a kiss of masked loyalty, as 
did Jud;;s Iscariot, in the by<rone days But then, there was surely no 
mask whatever ill any conference with Jefferson Davis, nor with the Cop- 
perhead Democracy ; but tiie epidemic perils which he inflicted on the 
Potomac Army, which did contribute to encourage treason, and also 
weaken our military strength. He is now doing the same thing, by- 
wrapping himself with the attire of the Copperhead, anti-war Demncracy, 
and consenting to be their candidate for the highest office of the nation, 
that he may so palsy the arm of Lincoln as shall preveat a faitber flog- 
ging of the rebels back to their loyalty. 

But now we hare in Sherman and in Grant an exhibition of military 
tenacity of purpose unexampled in the History of any slow, disobedient , 
General, The great chaiacteristic of the Lieutenant Commander of the 
army from which George B. McClellan was relieved, is, that when he 
h 'S failed in one thing, he attempts ano her, and thus he continues until 
success crowns his efforts. But notiinig like this can ornament the na- 
tion's historic page, as a laurel of faithfulness and valor, to be awarded 
to George B. McClellan, the Co[)perhead nominee to fill tiie Presidential 
chair, and who did comparatively nothing, except to waste away his 
army, but not ia the battle field. It seems to have been his single pur- 
pose to please his ani-war party, a northern wing of a confederate army 
of traitors ; and these continue to venerate his generaJship, because, un- 
der the mask of loyalty, he swoie he would " drive every rebel to the 
wall ; '' and hence he is now their nominee, as a reward for his patriotic 
dereliction. 

We sug-gest to loyal Americans, that we have put in nomination 
Abraham Lincoln, who has, for three years, been President of so much of 
the United States as his armies have been able to hold for him to preside 
over; and we may, verily, affirm, they hold this, and this only for him 
still, at the point of the bayonet. We are, however, gaining, step by 
step, from time to time, and before his present term expires, we verily 
believe, while we confide in the God of nations, that he will actually be 
President of the whole United States. 

Abraham Lincoln is again presented to the people of the United States 
for their suffrages, because, he is the faithful man again.st whom the rebels 
made their assault on the Constitution with a determination that he should 
not be President of the United States, althougli a majority of the people 
affirmed by their votes at the ballot here, that he should be President of 
the whole United States. 

At Baltimore, the convention accepted that issue fairly and sqnarelv, 
even while the rebels were fighting to put Abraham Lincoln out of the 
Presidential chair, and their sympathizing northern wing aiding as co- 
workers in the cause of treason, to support a candidate for the nation's 
chie*, who, though, at one time, a commander of the army of the Poto- 
mac, did nothing that should displease the anti- war-democracy ever alive 
with emotions of horror at the thought that a confederacy of traitors is 
being coerced to obedience by military force. 

We therefore say, could the bleaching bones of the nation's dead 
soldiers speak from their dormitory, not from their graves, because, 
these had none as a memorial in the putrid swamps of the Chicka- 
hominy, they would suggest a mournful story at the polls, in November 



14 

1804 ; nor could these fail to advise our newly enlisted M'arriors to 
reijudiato Georg-e B. M'Clellan's cruel presumption in tiiejry and 
practice, which compelled thciu not to fight the rebels, but rather to 
sicken and die, far away from a beloved wife, a father, and children, 
in a i|uagmire of pits and snares, whither they were driven, but wliere 
their commander dared not venture to stay, nor afford them a burial. 

Did our Constitution admit widows and nrplians to vc)te for a Pres- 
ident at the coining election, tlicse would crowd in multitudes at the 
polls, not to put Lincoln out of his chair, but rather to defeat the elec- 
tion of a man these affirm guilty of the blood of their husbands and 
fathers. Moreover, could tlie entire Rebel South procure the defeat 
of Abraham Lincoln, now the nominee for a re-election, for four future 
years, by giving their suffrages to George H. .McClellan, tliey would 
rush to the aid of Vallandigliam, Horatio Seymour, and the equally 
treacherous Woods, in g-rcater nuinbcrs. 

" I noed not recill the dark threatening affairs in the Winter of 1860— '61. A 
long-planned, deep-laid conspiracy, about to break upon the land, with ail the hor- 
ross ot civil war. I'atriots saw the tornado coming, saw the traitors plotting and 
planning the destruction of the Government, disarming and plundering ii, binding 
it, preparing it to fall an easy victim into the Lands of traitors, and yi.t had no 
mvans to resist, because all its machinery was in the hands of traitors. How im- 
patiently and fearfully they waited for th; 4lh of March all will remember. The 
I'residi-ut elect Mt the oppressive weight of r'?pon>ibllity resting upon him. There 
is not a more simple, touching and beautiful sjieech iu the English language than 
that whicti he uttered to hii nrighbors from the platform of the rail-car, ou bidding 
a good-bye to his home, to enter upon the duties of the i^rtsidency. 

•' For more than twenty-five years I have lived among you, and during all that 
time I have received nothing l)ut kindness at your hands. Here the most cherished 
ties of earth were assumed. Here my children were born, and here one uf ttiem 
lies buried. 

" To you my friends, I owe all that I have all that I am. All the strange 
checkered past seems to crowd now upon mj- mind. To-day I leave yon. I go 
to assume a task more difficult then that whirh devolved upon Gen. Washington. 
Unless the Great God who assisted him shall be with me and aid me, 1 cannot pre- 
vail ; but if the same Omniscient mind, and tlie same Almighty arm that directed 
and protected him shall guide and support me, 1 shall not fail , 1 shall succeed. Let 
us pray that the God of our fathers may not forsake us now. To him I commend 
you all. Permit me to ask that, with equal sincerity and faith, you will invoke His 
wisdom and guidance for me. 

»• The feeling of the people was impressively exhibited by the mottos on the ban- 
ners which they i xtcuded across the streets through which he passed on his way to 
the Capitol. • \V : will pray for you,' was often the si,o-nificant motto. 

'• No so im|iressive an inauguriUiou as that of Mr. Lincoln has occurred since t e 
ina>'.gur*tion of Washington. :le had oeen threatened with assc<ination, and the 
rebeU bid iuiended his murder us he passed through Caltimore. On his arrival th r 
he loiiad the public ofTices filled with traitors. Strange as it may seem, the reeel 
General.'* Lee and Joe aud Albert Johns on. and iiwcU and Hill, -tuart and Magruder, 
Palnierston ai.d Winder, held, in March aud April, 1864, leoding positions in our 
army. Traitors were everywhere. 

" lli2 citizens or ^Washington wer*^, a large portion of them, iu sympathy with the 
rebelH. Secession lad been preceded l^y secret con?pir.icy, concocted by those 
holding Ihohighe;-! ofllcial trusts. It hcul" l)eoa veiled by perjured professions of 
loyally. On Mr. Lincoln's arival there, these were the men be found in all the pub- 
lic offices, and hn was encircled on every sid. by spies anJ traitors. None who 
witnessed it w, 11 ever foig'-t the Hceuc of that inauguration. Stinding on tue east- 
ern front <tf the Capitol, the Jndg«'8 of tho .^upien;e Court, the Senate and House 

of Kepri f'.ulative.s, the high ofTiceis ot the army and navy arotuid him, a mingled 

crowd of traitors and jiutriols, with many an eye lonvliig searchingly into his 
* ueighbor'b to learn whether he ga/.jd upm' a truit^a- or a li-ieud , standing there 



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araldst scowling enemies with murder and treason in their hearts, Lincoln was 
cool and determin -d. He read his inauguml with a voice clear and distinct 
enough to ba henrd by twice ten thousand people. When with reverent look he 
swore by the eternal God that he would faithfully 'preserve, protect and defend^ 
the Constitiition, his great rival. Douglas, stood, not by accident at his ^ide 
Douglas knew perhaps, better than the President himself, the dangVrs and dim' 
culties which surrounded him. He was observed to whisper in tbe ear of JMr. 
Li, coin, and 1 believe gave the I'resideut the assurance that in the dark and diffi- 
cut future he would stand by him and give him his utmost aid in upolding the 
Constitution and crushing treason and rebellion. Nobly did Dougk^ redeenTthat 
plodg.'. After the rebel attack on Sumter, be boldlv made the well known declara- 
tion that there could now be but two paities, patriots and traitors H»d he lived 
he would have sustained the President with all the vigor and energy peculiar to' 
bis character.-' ° 

Mt Countrymek : 

Such is Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Nominee for the Pres- 
idency of the nation ; and such the Democratic Douglas affirmed him 
to be when his pale lips were quivering- in death. Yes, when the 
cold^ sweat gathered on the forehead of this loyal Democrat, he said, 
"Were I to live, I would stai.d by Ahruham Lincoln^ and give to him my 
aid in upholding the Constdution, and crushim^ treason and rebellion:' 
but now, could our nation's grief enter the sanctified bosom of that 
ever-loyal man, in his everlasting rest, how must he repudiate the pre- 
varication of the Copperhead sympathizer, and also his equally shuf- 
fling " nominee for the nation's executive chair. 

Americans, loyal Union patriots, please indulge a man of more than 
seventy-nine winters, who was a chaplain durii'ig the war of 1812, to 
close this section of The statesman, :iold'ers' and Citizetis' Library'hy 
suggesting that patriotic truth is purifying. We say it has com- 
menced its glorious march, portraying what was the old sound mettle 
of the fathers of 76, and also who are their honored descendants, hold- 
ing fast their patriotic form of a strong national Government. ' This 
truth is now purifying many of the misled of the Copperhead fraterni- 
ty, and these, illuminated, will march to the polls to the aid of our 
Union Republican cause, cleansed from every particle of alloy. We 
moreover repeat that patriotic truth is powerful in its ever steady 
march m our nation's cause. This has already gone down into the 
dark treasonable hiding-place of the sympathizing forger of party 
poitical lies, and brought him and his nominee for the Presidential 
chair, bound hand and foot, to a tribunal of this American nation from 
which there can be no esca;?''. Thete co-workers with Jeff Davis and 
his master the devil, are tu be pierced right through, with none other 
but truth- Political sympathising, secession. Copperhead disloyalty, 
IS vulnerable, and truth has followed it searching and finding it in all 
Its labyrinths of hellish secrecy. It is now cutting up dis- 
loyalty, root and branch ; so that Jefi" Davis, Buchanan, Val- 
landigham, the notorious Fernando, Horatio, anr1 Georcro B. iicClel- 
lau, have nothing to stand upon. More than this, these'must remain 
forever remain hopeless, defenceless, and sunk, under a scene of their 
owm guilt. My dear, loyal countrymen, listen ye to the majes- 
ty of nothing but patriotic, searching, strong, national truth, because 
this runs upon the judgment seat. Providence is its faithful messen- 
ger, to guide our counsels in the Presidential campaign, in the cab- 



16 

inet, and also in the battle fiekl. All, all error ! treason, rebellion 
and Copperhead riotous anarchy, Avithout compromise, must fall be- 
neath its power ! Yes, yes, the statesman whose lip is jxilluted by 
treason, and who once denounced the acts of the present incumbent in 
his resort to "military necessity " as unsound, unjust, and treasonable, 
and also, at the same time saying, " remember that a UKjb may pro- 
claim the bloody doctrine of public necessity, as well as a govern- 
ment.'' That man, we say, is now being summoned to a coming- judg- 
ment, by the people at the polls. 

It is, therefore, in view of the ultimate triumph of truth in tlie pros- 
pective, that shall guide our countrymen, not as political party men, 
but rather as the nation's loyals, on the 4th of November of this 1864, 
we say, in the language of good, aged Simeon, " Now, Lord, let thy 
servant depart in peace, according to thy word, for mine eyes have 
seen thy salvation." Because one past shall soon run to meet another, 
with tidings to shoAv Jefferson Davis and George B. McClellan that 
the secession army of the one, and the Copperhead army of the other, 
are routed and spoiled. And then, then ! shall tliex'e be great re- 
joicing in heaven, saying Haleluiah 1 for true and righteous are thy 
judgments, Lord God Almighty. 

We submit to the guidance of purifying, searching, irresistable 
truth, and retire, leaning on the top of our staff, uttering and reiterat- 
ing tlie sentiment of a wise King, that '' righteousness exalteth a 
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